In this video, Christian Liem, Server Manager at Gensler, shares his views on capacity planning, automation, the value in standardizing IT resources, both the technology and the process for delivering it. Watch this video to learn more about the issues and progress on their virtualized environment. 

In this video, Lee Dehmer, IT Manager at Gearbulk Inc, speaks about the benefits of virtualization at their organization. He shares his insight on benefits of pooling all their resources, servers, storage and networking, into a single, virtual infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more. 

IT operations are evolving in a number of ways. Some of the obvious changes include virtualization and the cloud. However, there are 5 less obvious trends that are changing the dynamics of IT operations, each of which is explained in this white paper. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

The increasing demand for software application delivery requires effective orchestration of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) processes. Read this report— part of a series on ALM— to discover a strategy for unified governance through process orchestration and management and its role in supporting the ALM process. 

Management of Cloud APIs presents a challenge and tremendous business opportunity. In this session, Forrester Research will decompose the API's role in cloud application control & security and show it opens new doors to connect smart-phone applications, browsers, middleware, legacy apps and just about anything that can talk HTTP. 

Existing approaches to data management prevent many businesses from harnessing the value of the huge volumes of data generated by today's Web-oriented, virtualized, real-time applications. Read this paper to learn how to meet increasing demands for immediate information with the modern data management products of the VMware vFabric platform. 

In this podcast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability. 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

Enterprise resource leader, SAP founded in 1972, is facing the slow death of traditional on-premise ERP. Customers with shrinking IT budgets are opting to outsource more of their core business systems. 

<p>Read this paper to learn how SAP Rapid Deployment solutions offers companies a new model for their on-premise software, with an emphasis on time to value and low cost, with the flexibility to scale for future growth</p> 

This independent report from analysts, Nucleus Research offers a critical assessment of Oracle’s Cloud Services.